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Originally Posted by Joborule
The fire Sutter crowd.
With having 5 coaches in the past nine(?) years, we're overdue in changing the man behind the bench.
Coaches can only last in this city for two seasons before fans want them out the door.
Nevermind that Sutter is the first coach with actual pedigree behind the bench since Hartley. He's a future Hall of Famer, and JUST won the Jack Adams last season.
But he doesn't know how to coach anymore according to the crowd that wants him gone.
Don't get it twisted, I think criticism of him is fair since he has done some things I haven't agreed with this season. The team is having a dreadful season, do of course it starts with him.
But I recognize that the top players haven't been playing anywhere where they need to for the team to be successful. The way they've underperformed on ice I don't see as coaching tactics issues. They're execution and focus deficiency.
I also think that the makeup of the roster is inadequate for goal production both offensively and defensively. The loss of the two players who left last season, and Kylington absence hasn't been replaced.
I'm placing the primary blame on the top players - Markstrom included - and Treliving for building this team.
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Ok so who said they want the inmates to run the asylum? Which member of the fire Sutter crowd said that?
But then you say criticism of him is fair but only on the things you don’t agree with him on.
Fact of the matter is, if he’s such an elite coach, then he deserves all the criticism he gets. So do the players. These things aren’t mutually exclusive.
Sutter has made horrendous personnel decisions and the players haven’t executed. And when the players haven’t responded, Sutter hasn’t adapted.
And sure, blame the GM too.